Jacksonville Baguars

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[Nate Monroe @NateM_Tributary]

New @TheFloridaTrib | Jacksonville City Council president flew on billionaire’s jet to catch Rays game

✍️ @molly_farrar; @Report4America

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[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

The Trump administration is closing research projects that help fight cyclospora, the foodborne parasite giving thousands of Americans diarrhea and pain this summer.

Three out of the three government projects that help combat the parasite are effectively shutting down.

https://t.co/3sCYfj2KwP

[Jacksonville Baguars @SenorDeDuval]

@TravisDHolmes Could BTJ2 play SLB?

[न B न @Nabin62158820]

पानीको वाहाव यति शक्तिशाली हुन्छ भन्ने मैले जिवन मा कल्पना समेत गरेको थिइन!
#Staysafe #nepal #flood

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

In 1988 Dolly Parton pulled every 7th and 8th grader in Sevier County into a room and told them to pick a buddy.

She made them sign a contract.. if BOTH graduate, she hands you both $500. One fails, nobody gets paid.

The county dropout rate went from 35% to 6%.

She handed out the checks herself.

In 1989 she offered $500 to every kid in the county who wanted to go to the local college.

When Gatlinburg burned in 2016, she sent 900 families $1,000 a month for six months.

You've probably heard that part.

Here's the part you haven't:

The fund raised more than expected, so she showed up in May and handed every one of those families another $5,000 on top.

Then she quietly put $3 million into the recovery group that handles the years after the news trucks leave.

She built her county an entire hospital.

She played a benefit concert in 2007, Dollywood and the Stampede matched it, and LeConte Medical Center opened in 2010 with a birthing unit and a women's center in it.

In 2022 she started covering 100% of tuition, books, and fees for Dollywood employees.

Full-time, part-time, AND seasonal.

In 1991 she paid for a bald eagle sanctuary because the birds couldn't be released back into the wild, no press release.

And when Hurricane Helene came through here in Western North Carolina, she wrote a personal check for $1 million and her companies matched it.

She didn't owe North Carolina anything, but she helped us anyway.

She started the Imagination Library because her daddy couldn't read or write. Before he passed, he told her it was the most important thing she ever did.

Rest in Peace, Dolly 🇺🇸

[XAlertWorld @xalertworld]

🌏 NEPAL 🇳🇵 | CHINA 🇨🇳 | 🚨 URGENTE - MILES DE PERSONAS ENTERRADAS VIVAS, PUEBLOS BORRADOS DEL MAPA: LOS HUMANOS SOMOS NADA ANTE LA NATURALEZA.

🛘 En segundos el alud se llevó todo, hizo desaparecer pueblos enteros, miles de personas han muerto y otras miles están desaparecidas.

[Have I Been Flocked? @HIBFlocked]

Knox County TN figured out the procurement shenanigans Flock has been pulling everywhere.

"I do not believe the 2020 contract between Knox County and your company is valid"

[Hannibal999 @Hannibal9972485]

Look at the code WIRED pulled from Flock’s own servers. Flock built an AI tool called OS Investigate.🚨👀

It accesses "commercial databases that contain Social Security numbers, dates of birth, phone numbers, email addresses, relatives and associates." It also accesses "police case files, 911 dispatch logs, and commercial identity records." The prompts can generate dossiers ("workups") on people based purely on driving patterns, without a crime, a plate, or a name. It Can identify drivers, track patterns, find "witnesses," generate suspicion based on behavior without a target. Code was found publicly on Flock's website. 🚨

Flock is performing automated, suspicionless background checks (pulling SSNs, DOBs, relatives) using commercial databases on citizens who have committed no crime, have no warrant, and are not named in any case file. The trigger is purely an AI algorithm flagging their driving pattern.
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NO officer initiates the search for the suspect, Flock's AI essentially acting as the investigator, but doing so through commercial data brokers. Flock pulls consumer reports without a permissible purpose.
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Why did Flock build OS Investigate? Because selling LPR cameras is a hardware game with limits. Selling an "AI investigator" is a high-margin SaaS play. To justify the valuation ($1B+), they need to monopolize the investigative workflow. To do that, they fused LPR data (which they hold) with police records (CJI) and commercial data (SSNs). ⚠️

Why are they doing this? Because Flock’s hardware is a commodity. The cameras are just metal on a pole. The real valuation the nearly $1 billion in venture capital is in their proprietary datasets. To justify that valuation, they have to build a total surveillance map of America that links physical movement to full digital and financial identities. They cannot legally buy that data on the open market because of the FCRA. So they built an AI to force the police to pull it for them. Flock gets the fused data, the police get the dossier, and Flock gets to declare the new AI-generated identity maps as "Flock Property" under their contracts.
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Flock is using the police as a legal shield to run unauthorized mass identity resolution queries for their own proprietary training and profit. The "perpetual license" terms gives Flock ownership of these AI-generated dossiers. They are building a national private surveillance database of SSNs linked to movement patterns, bypassing the FCRA by routing the queries through police terminals.🚨

Now look at their new August 2026 "Trust" updates. They announced a reduction in data retention to 7 days, but they created an exception called "Evidence Mode" where searched data is preserved instead of aging out. 🚨

Here is the trap. If they actually deleted data in 7 days, their AI prompts which ask for people "arrested more than twice in two years" would not function.🚨

The AI needs a multi-year historical window to track patterns. "Evidence Mode" is the backdoor they built to force all searched data into permanent retention so their AI can keep running. The 7-day retention is theater for the city councils. The permanent retention is the actual product.🚨

And the Audit Assistance" they say is to catch police misuse? It is a complete deception. The audit logs track the police officer. But the AI generates the lead before the officer interacts with the system. The AI does the suspicionless searching in the backend. The officer just clicks the prewritten prompt. The audit log captures the officer clicking a button, but it does not capture the unauthorized API calls Flock’s AI is making to the commercial databases to pull the SSNs. They built the logging system to cover their own corporate trail.🚨

https://t.co/iuTZcosABs

[Jacksonville Baguars @SenorDeDuval]

@DanDGriffis @PFF Pff pass block grade?

[Jamison Daniel @AntiquarianMuse]

This is BRILLIANT.

[Eyes Wide Open 🧢 @VaTechPhiDelt]

Lmao! Byron Donalds did not just say this.
Listen to the audience reaction. 😄😄 https://t.co/gJsmk29Exy

[Men's Humor @MensHumor]

McDonald’s is a real estate corp.

They sell burgers on the side.

[Bold City Beat @BoldCityBeat]

The Gator Bowl and Coliseum in 1965.

That’s a lot of parking…

📸: @FLMemory

[Champagne Joshi @JoshWalkos]

They are now hiding the Flock ALPR cameras in speed display trailers.

For your safety of course.

[DeFlock @therealDeFlock]

We need your help this weekend.

1️⃣ Find and map one camera.
2️⃣ Get one friend or family member to follow DeFlock on any social.

Cities are canceling contracts.

Businesses are rethinking their positions.

That's because of people like you.

Keep it going!

#DeFlock #Flock #AI

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

Flock is now in over 5,000 communities, conducting over 20 billion license plate scans every month.

Flock's CEO says they respect the democratic process, but when a Cleveland commission voted not to renew the AI surveillance company's contract, that decision was promptly reversed with little explanation.

This is what it looks like when politicians don't respect the people — it is in fact the opposite of the democratic process.

[Jason Bassler @JasonBassler1]

Want to hate Flock more?

Flock runs an integrative monitoring interface called "Nova". It gives cops a single screen that merges ALPR hits, dispatch logs, jail records, & public data, turning your cities surveillance into a real-time search engine

Big L for civil liberties

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

Health insurers are again proposing double-digit premium increases this year while the top health insurance companies announce massive stock buybacks.

In preliminary rate filings, ACA Marketplace insurers largely propose double-digit premium increases for 2027, following steep climbs in 2026.

Marketplace insurers are proposing a median premium increase of 14% for 2027 — with some as high as 35%, according to a new analysis of preliminary rate filings in 16 states and Washington, D.C.

At the same time, here are the buybacks recently giant health insurers are doing right now, enriching shareholders and executives:

- UnitedHealth Group: $2 billion in buybacks during the first quarter

- Centene: $608 million in buybacks so far this year, with $1.8 billion authorized

- Elevance: $6 billion in buybacks

Rep. Greg Murphy (D-NC) recently presented to Congress that since 2015, the top 7 health insurance companies have spent more than $137 billion buying back stock.

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

Delta says ticket prices aren’t coming down, despite the cost of jet fuel falling.

Delta's revenue was up over $17 billion last quarter, with profits topping $1 billion.

The airline has also raised ticket prices 10-20% on most routes this year, and hiked bag fees.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Massie: "I think it's ironic that we control the House, Senate, Supreme Court, and the White House, and we're yelling 'election fraud'? I mean, we won all the damn elections."